Kinect On Your Laptop?

Remember that time when Microsoft came out with their glorious new motion-sensing technology and the world rejoiced and gaming was saved and everyone joined hands (virtually) and sang happy songs like Sexual Healing or Secret Garden?

Reports are in that Kinect, the glorious motion-sensing technology that Microsoft has tried their very hardest to push first for their console and then for PC, might now be headed to laptops.

Not the module in its entirety mind you, but the same technology. Yes, the header image is not actual.

Those very reports have claimed that such technology already exists, with Asus laptops rocking Kinect built right into the display. Prototypes have appeared to be just like regular laptops, but bedazzled with some shiny sensors above the screen where the web cam would normally go, with a panel of LEDs below the screen.

The speculation is that not only has a Microsoft source confirmed the presence of Kinect technology, but that the company itself is likely to license out the technology to various other hardware firms, many that could benefit from the control interfaces and interaction in the upcoming Windows 8 operating system.